Chair seat



J. E. LAMBETH.

CHAIR SEAT.

I APPLICATION FILED NOV. 25, 1921. 1,411,635.

Patented Apr. 4, 1922.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFF-ICE."

JAMES E. LAMBETH, 0F THOMASVILLE. NORTH CAROLINA. ASSIGNOR TO THE STA ND- ARD CHAIR COMPANY, OF THOMASVTLLE, NORTH CAROLINA, A CORPORATION OF NORTH CAROLINA.

CHAIR sneicr.

Application filed November To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES E. LAM'HF'PH, a citizen of theUnited States of America, residing at Thomasville, in the county of Davidson and State of North Carolina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Chair Seats, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a new and useful improvement in chair seats and has for an object to provide a seat that will be exceedingly strong and rigid in construction and so arranged and formed that it may be quickly and readily inserted in thebody of the chair after the same has been assembled.

Still another object ofthe invention is to provide a detachable chair seat consisting of a rigidly assembled frame about which is completely woven a seating of rattan, cane, wicker or other fibre.

The usual practice of forming or constructing chairs that have a woven wicker or rattan seating is to assemble the chair body and place the same in a swinging frame and weave the seating directly around the side, front and rear stretchers. The chair has to be inverted from time to time and the weaving does not progress as rapidly as desired as the arms and legs, etc. impede the free movement of the operator.

With the present invention, however. a number of the chair seat frames, about to be described, can be assembled and around which can be easily and quickly woven the rattan seating as there are no outstanding parts to interfere with the action of the weaver.

Another disadvantage of the old style seat is, that when the seating is woven directly around the stretchers of the chair, and the seating becomes worn, new seating cannot be easily or readily substituted and the chair will be discarded even though the body of the same is in good condition.

With the present invention, however, should the seating become worn, the old seat frame may be quickly removed and a new frame with the seating thereon placed on the old stretchers. A few nails may be passed through the frame thus restoring the chair to a good condition, and at a nominal eX ense.

ith the above and other objects in view the invention consists in certain new and Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 4, 1922.

Serial No. 517,603.

novel arrangements and combination of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and pointed out in the claims.

Referring now to the drawings, showing a preferred form of the invention,

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a conven tional chair with my improved seat shown in position.

Fig. 2 is a plan view ofthe assembled seat frame,

Fig. 3 is a vertical edge of the same.

Fig. 4c is a fragmentary detailed perspective of one corner of the frame, a few ofthe strands of the seating being also shown.

F ig. 5. is a fragmentary detailed view showing the preferred form of weaving of the chair seat surface, and

Fig. 6 is a similar view of the preferred form ofweaving of the bottom surface of the chair seat.

As clearly shown in Figs. 2 to l inclusive, the seat frame consists of the two side members or stretchers 1, which are cut away at their opposite ends to form the tongues 2, which tongues are adapted to tightly fit within the grooves 3, which grooves are formed in the transverse front and rear stretchers 4. The front stretcher is somewhat longer than the rear one so that the seat frame will taper from the front to the rear as clearly shown in Fig. 2.

Near the opposite end of each of these transverse stretchers an arcuate portion is removed as at 5 so that when the seat frame is placed in the chair 6 the periphery of the cut-out portions will partly encircle the uprights 7 of the chair, thus adding greatly to the rigidity of the entire chair.

The rattan or other seating which is in the form of strips 8 will be woven completely about the frame as shown in Fig. 1. The strands are made to pass over and under the separate members of the frame and may be woven to form the diagonal design shown as at 9. By so weaving the strands the surface of the seat will be relatively smooth and at the same time the diagonal configuration will tend to prevent any lateral or diagonal strains in the chem frame.

The bottom surface may be woven as shown at 10 as this surface does not have to be as smoth as the upper surface of the seat.

of course, the seating may be woven 1n any other desired configurations just so the strands completely encircle the frame of the seat.

1 It is a relativel simple matter to weave the seatin tight y' about this seat frame and the tig iter the weaving the more rigidly will the frame be held, which, of course, is greatly desired as the torsional and lateral strains on a chair seat will ordinarily soon loosen the separate members of the frame and the chair bod Y will lose the bracing effect. of the seat rame. 1

After the frame has been assembled, as shown in F i 2, a nail or dowel pin 11 may be passed t rough the tongue and groove portions to hold the members in their assembled position and after the seating has been app ied to the frame the same may be placed in the chair, resting on the stretchers- 12 of the chair,.the periphery of the cut-out corners partly encircling the adjacent uprights of the chair body, thus tending to brace the body of the chair, and after being placed-in position the frame, may be secured to the stretchers with a few nails, not shown. Fromthe foregoing it will be seen that I have formed a seat frame that is exceedingly strong and rigid in construction and at the same time so arranged that after it has been woven it may be quickly and readily laced in a new chair that is being assemb ed or may be quickly and readily substituted in a chair for an old seat which has been damaged b continual use.

Hurt ermore, much time can be saved in weaving a detached seat frame rather than 'weaving the stretchers of the chair and a much more rigid frame is secured as the tighter the weaving the tighter the parts of the frame will be held together. v p Also, new seats can be readily replaced which often times will save the discarding of the entire chair body.

Of course, different size frames may be made according to the different style chairs manufactured and I do not wish to be limited in any way to the style of chair shown as it is simply a conventional one and shown for the purpose of illustration.

Many slight changes may be made without in any way departing from the spirit and sco e of the invention.

aving thus described the invention what I claimas new and desire to secure by Letters, Patent is:

A detachable chair seat comprising a frame havingfront, side and. rear stretchers, said front and rear stretchers having portions near their ends; cut away to form projections, said projections provided .with

grooves,.the .sideastretchers provided with JAMES LAMBETH. 

